Society, medicine and religion in the sacred tales of Aelius Aristides
I tiakina i:
Kaituhi matua: | |
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Kaituhi rangatōpū: | |
Hōputu: | Tāhiko īPukapuka |
Reo: | Ingarihi |
I whakaputaina: |
Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
2012.
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Rangatū: | Mnemosyne, bibliotheca classica Batava. Supplementum. Monographs on Greek and Roman language and literature ;
v. 341. |
Ngā marau: | |
Urunga tuihono: | An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view |
Ngā Tūtohu: |
Tāpirihia he Tūtohu
Kāore He Tūtohu, Me noho koe te mea tuatahi ki te tūtohu i tēnei pūkete!
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Rārangi ihirangi:
- Aelius Aristides and the sacred tales
- Introduction
- The composition of the sacred tales
- Date of composition
- Method of composition
- Motives for composition
- The sacred tales as an autobiography
- The ancient readers of the sacred tales
- A narrative of redemption
- Society, disease and medicine in the sacred tales of Aristides
- Introduction
- The Graeco-Roman health-care system
- Towards a definition of a medical discourse
- Medicine in the Graeco-Roman world
- Roman medicine and its Greek influences
- Dreams
- The sick, medicine and physicians in the world of the sacred tales
- The place of the sick in society
- Medical discourse in the sacred tales
- The physicians in the sacred tales
- Towards a medical history of Aelius Aristides
- Falling ill
- Aristides and Asclepius
- Wider contexts
- Reconsidering private religions; religion and religious experience in the sacred tales of Aelius Aristides
- Introduction
- Theology
- The myth of Asclepius
- Divination, oracles and dreams
- Dreams
- Oracles
- Visual culture and social forms of cult-organisation
- Cult, festivals and games
- The power of images.